#library

That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. ↗

— Aphra Behn

#reading #faith

In the wide pile, by others heeded not, Hers was one sacred solitary spot, Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain For moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain. ↗

— Walter Scott

#library #solitude #food

Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system! ↗

— Vera Brosgol

#library #teen #humor

Oh, wow." "What do you think?" "I tried to imagine, but--I mean...it's so much more--" "Think it's large enough to keep you satisfied for a while?" "It's so much bigger than I expected" He backed away, leaving Beatrice to gaze in wonder at the library that took up half of the second floor. "I think I'll just leave you two alone for a bit," he said with a chuckle. ↗

— Elizabeth Hunter

#giovanni #library #sexual-innuendo #imagination

Some people write letters, in the library. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#library #imagination

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. ↗

— Jane Austen

#library #reading #read

[D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read... ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#libraries #library #reading #read

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#library #wild

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#poor

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#humanity #library #future